Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are Fem’s suggestions: Watch some amazing performances at the World Festival of Sacred Music (October 1-16, various times and locations) Check out LOVE BITES: A Banned Erotica Showcase at The Comedy Store (September 30 at 7pm) Head to the Getty Villa to take in a production of Trojan…
Australia will now give citizens the chance to select “indeterminate” rather than “male” or “female” when applying for a passport. Denmark has elected its first female prime minister. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became the first woman to open the UN General Assembly. According to Newsweek, Iceland is the best country in the world for women.…
Every week, blogger and columnist Sahar Shiralian explores a different aspect of popular culture through a feminist lens. Patti Stanger, the notorious matchmaker of filthy rich but socially inept men (and sometimes women), is quite the polemical feminist figure. Indeed, her place in feminist literature remains nebulous. With countless reality TV shows like “America’s Next…
Nothing is sexier than a great pair of tits, right? In our society, breasts are so sexualized that women cannot expose them without causing a scene. Sometimes, causing a scene feeds the soul. Every month in cities around the globe, thousands of bicyclists gather to ride in tandem, empowering the community of bike riders –…
Every week, blogger and columnist Sahar Shiralian explores a different aspect of popular culture through a feminist lens. Summer 2011 was the summer of Kardashian. Like it or not, the reality TV royal family was absolutely ubiquitous in the media. Dressed to perfection, dripping in designer labels, and baring pearly white, perky smiles, the Kardashian…
Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are Fem’s suggestions: Enjoy a slice of pie at KCRW’s 3rd Annual Good Food Pie Contest at the LACMA (Sunday, Sept. 18th from 2 to 4 pm) Take in Reprise Theater Company’s “Cabaret” at the UCLA Freud Playhouse (Sept. 13th through 25th, check website for times) Check…
Glee star Heather Morris and photographer Tyler Shields were criticized for a photo shoot depicting the actress with a black eye. Forever 21 has been called out for selling t-shirts that read “Allergic to Algebra” and “Skool Sucks.” Women’s boxing has been added to the 2012 London Olympics. In the 2008 Olympics, boxing was the…
Looking for something to do in Los Angeles this weekend? Here are Fem’s recommendations: Check out the “BEAUTY CULTURE” exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography (ongoing) Drop by the “The Personal is Political” exhibit at the MOCA (ongoing) Attend the Hammer’s Museum’s free event “New American Writing: Leopoldine Core & Dinah Lenney” (Friday, Sept. 9th at…
As a moony adolescent, romantic comedies were the bread and butter of my over romanticized, daydream-filled existence. I lusted after the quintessential romantic plot: boy meets girl in unexpected encounter, boy and girl fall in love and are subjugated to absurd romantic travails and tribulations, and finally, boy and girl kiss and have spectacular wedding…
credit MTV/PictureGroup Every week, blogger and columnist Sahar Shiralian explores a different aspect of popular culture through a feminist lens. Admittedly, the Video Music Awards is the last place I look to find moments of empowering feminism or the touting of gender equality. Music videos and many cringe worthy pop lyrics are usually the…